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Killer mum on her way back to Sydney

Killer mum Allyson McConnell is set to touch down in Sydney this morning, leaving behind shattered lives and a political firestorm in Canada.

McConnell, 34, who was sentenced to six years' jail for drowning her two young sons in a bathtub in her adopted home town of Millet, Alberta, was taken through a non-public security checkpoint at Edmonton airport on Monday night.

According to Canadian media reports, she flew from Edmonton to Vancouver, where she caught a Sydney-bound Air Canada flight.

Her mother, Helen Meager from Gosford on the NSW Central Coast, was reportedly accompanying McConnell on the 15.5 hour journey from Vancouver to Sydney.

McConnell's former husband, Curtis McConnell, along with prosecutors and the Alberta Justice Minister, fought to keep McConnell in Canada until the appeals for her six-year sentence and acquittal on second-degree murder charges were heard.

"We fear that if Allyson Meager McConnell is deported to Australia, we will never see her face justice for the horror and terror she inflicted on two innocent babies before killing them," Mr McConnell's family said in a statement released on Sunday.

"How can we be assured that this case will not get swept under the rug when we have not been kept in the loop up to this point?"

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McConnell admitted she drowned her sons, two-year-old Connor and 10-month-old Jayden, in the bathtub in 2010 and at her trial last year she was found guilty of two counts of manslaughter, but not second-degree murder.

The judge found McConnell was suffering psychological issues and there was reasonable doubt she had the specific intent to kill Connor and Jayden.

While McConnell was sentenced to six years, with time already served credits, she spent just 10 months in the psychiatric ward of Alberta Hospital.

The trial heard how the McConnells' marriage had broken down in 2009, Mr McConnell moved out of the family home and filed for divorce and a judge ordered McConnell could not take her sons back to Australia.

Mr McConnell found his two sons floating in the bathtub, with his former wife's wedding ring sitting on the toilet seat next to the bath.

McConnell's release after 10 months has led to a war of words between Alberta politicians, and their federal counterparts, with each side blaming the other for McConnell's release ahead of the appeals and exit to Australia.

Alberta's Justice Minister Jonathan Denis has vowed to extradite McConnell from Australia if the appeals for a stiffer sentence are successful.